Improvement in coffee-holders for coffee-pots



S. C. JOHNSON. COFFEE-HOLDERS FOB. COFFEE-POTS.. No.1'79,025, Patented J'une 20;18 76.

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SAMUEL O. JOHNSON, OF FLEMINGTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN COFFEE-HOLDERS FOR COFFEE-POTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,025, dated J une 20, 1876; application filed May 17, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL O. JOHNSON, of Flemington, Hunterdon county, State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Goffee-Holder for Coffee-Pots, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to construct a simple and effective coffee-holder for coffeepots; and this object I attain in the manner which I will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view, illustratin g the application of my improved holder to a coffee-pot, and Fig. 2 an enlarged view of the holder.

A represents a casing preferably made of sheet metahand of cylindrical shape, this cas-' ing being suspended within the coffee-pot, in the present instance, by means of two arms, a a, bent over the upper edge of the pot, and held in place by the lid of the same. The casing A is covered at bottom and top with a strip, 11, of textile fabric, such as linen, these strips being secured in place by rings d, slipped over the endsof the casing, and confining the edges of the strip of fabric -to the same, as shown in Big. 2.

In using the above-described holder, one of the covers bis first removed, and the recep- I tacle filled with ground coffee, after which the cover is replaced, and the holder introduced into the coffee-pot, which is partly filled with water. As this water becomes heated, it passes up through the casing A, and acts on the cofi'ee contained therein, the heads of textile fabric presenting no obstacle to the free passage of the liquid, but serving to effectually confine the particles of coffee to the holder. The covers b of textile fabric not only afford the best means of maintaining the decoction of coffee in aclarified condition, but can, when they become clogged and unfit for use, be replaced at very slight expense.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desi're to claim, separately, a coffee-holder with a cover and retaining-ring, nor, broadly, suspending a holder in a coffee-pot; but

I claim as my invention- The within-described coffee-holder, consisting of the casing A, its supporting-arms a, covers I), of textile fabric, and retaining-rings d, all combined substantially in the manner described.

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL O. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

J OHN A. BULLocK,

' EDWARD R. BULLooK. 

